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Wintering Bikes

Marc Taro Holmes's avatarCitizen Sketcher

(This is an older post that got accidentally deleted – so, re-posting back up).

Here’s a slice of life in Montreal. The mournful sight of bikes rusting away in the snowbank.

There’s lots of reasons to bike in Montreal. The bike lanes pretty much go everywhere, and there’s nowhere to park a car anyway. Plus it’s greener and all that jazz. So lots of people bike. Some ride all winter – snow and sleet be dammed. We’re Quebeckers! Mon pays c’est l’hiver!

Here on the Plateau, people live in these 100 year old buildings with precarious external staircases. There’s no place in your tiny apartment for a bike even if you didn’t fall to your death trying to take it upstairs. So you’re always seeing them on the sidewalk, locked to a little iron railing, axle deep in the snowbank.

After the melt the streets are littered with these frozen…

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Jacob Russell’s Barking Dog

R.I.P Barking Dog
Do I bury her
her faithful head always
at my finger tips
so many 1’s and 0’s–
or keep her stuffed &
mounted–
tie poems to her tail
her eyes reflecting the titles
of the books she loved
her last bark
echoing in the libraries of forgotten blogs

I think what I’ll do for the time being, is use the old blog for an archive: recycle what seems worth another look, delete the dated and ephemeral posts, transfer photos of my art here, a few at a time.

“The ‘bricoleur’

…is adept at performing a large number of diverse tasks; but unlike the engineer, he [sic] does not subordinate each of them to the availability of raw materials and tools conceived and procured for the purpoose of the project. His universe of instruments is closed and the rules of his game are always to make do with ‘whatever is at hand,’ that is to say with a set of tools and materials which is always finite and is also heterogeneous because what it contains bears no relation to the current project, or indeed to any particular project, but is the contingent result of all the occasions there have been to renew or enrich the stock or to maintain it with the remains of previous constructions or destructions”
Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind.